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Make your burrito or bowl at home, and it'll cost $4 or less.
by Cyberdog 3mo ago
Make your burrito or bowl at home, and it'll cost $4 or less.
- IncreasePosts 3mo agoThat sounds really cheap, if you don't consider that you need to do all the shopping, you need to prepare all the food, and deal with probably a bunch of food waste.
- otikik 3mo agoThis was actually tried. Cheaper and healthier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRtoUoBgjDw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRtoUoBgjDw
- ssl-3 3mo agoThat video shows a person spending more than $34 on groceries and making exactly 1 burrito.
- otikik 3mo agoYou didn't watch it then. The leftovers would allow him to make way more burritos than just one.
- ssl-3 3mo agoI saw what I saw. If there are more burritos in the future, then: I eagerly await Episode 2: One More Burrito [from last week's funky leftovers]
- otikik 3mo agoHe says it right after returning from the store. Like "I bought this bag of 12 tortillas, I only need one for this burrito, obviously I would be using the rest for other things".
- ssl-3 3mo agoSure. Tortillas can indeed last for quite a long time without any particular extra effort. Those 11 unused tortillas account for $4.39. We'll take that off of the total. The cost of the singular burrito has now been reduced to ~$30, which still seems rather expensive.
- otikik 3mo agoI'm not going to do the whole split here. If you want, watch the video. If you don't want to, just take my word for it that there's plenty of leftovers besides the tortillas.
- IncreasePosts 3mo agoMy point is it's cheap if you value your time at $0.
- otikik 3mo agoActually given that in the US especially you would have to drive to chipotle, queue and then wait for them to prepare it, and you are already doing groceries anyway, you are exchanging driving and waiting at a Chipotle by cooking things at home. I find the second more enjoyable, but I understand that for people that don't like cooking it might not be the case.
- Cyberdog 3mo agoAre you someone who has the capability to be constantly making money any time you want to? If not and you just have a normal 9-5 job or something close to it, you have plenty of time to shop for an hour once a week, then spend 10-30 minutes a day making your own lunches and dinners and still come ahead financially -- way, way ahead. I have no idea where you're coming from with the "dealing with food waste" part so I'll just ignore it.
- IncreasePosts 3mo agoAre you someone who has the capability to create extra time in your day? If not and you just have a few hours of free time per day, you can choose to spend some of that free time cooking, or you can let someone else cook for you and use that time on other things you value more than saving $10 or whatever. The strategy is dependent on what is more precious to you - time, or money. Telling someone they should spend their time to save $10 is pretty pointless if you don't know what their financial situation is and whether that $10 has any meaning. Food waste is food that you buy which is not ultimately consumed , which increases your cost per meal. This might be trimmings, it might be something you burn, it might be leftovers you don't get to.
- mplewis 3mo agois this your first time being introduced to the concept of cooking?
- coryrc 3mo agoWhy is it a sin in America to take advantage of economies of scale for cooking but not for anything else?
- mindslight 3mo agoDo you enjoy eating just rice wrapped in a tortilla or something? Burritos are a harsh illustration of the economy of scale. Doing a quick tally with sale prices, and I'd think buying all the ingredients to make one single burrito would be upwards of $20-25, at least. Never mind the time to cook each ingredient that needs to be cooked. And most of these supplies and prep are going to last what, ~4 days before they spoil?
- Cyberdog 3mo agoBut you wouldn't be making a single burrito. You'd be making several over several days, and/or using the leftover ingredients for other meals. Economic literacy is truly dead, isn't it? Good lord.
- mindslight 3mo agoThis is what you said: "Make your burrito or bowl at home, and it'll cost $4 or less" That statement implies you can straightforwardly save by substituting that one meal with a made at home meal. The reality is much more complicated, as shown by your backpedaling to making several burritos and other meals. I could just as easily lob that economic literacy jab right back at you. For example, perhaps OP has a burrito once a week, to break up the monotony of eating a home made sandwich every other day. That would be savvy, right?
- Cyberdog 3mo agoI mean, I figured the concept of buying ingredients to make a single meal for one person and then just throwing whatever's left away is so ridiculous on the face of it that I wouldn't need to qualify it, but apparently I was wrong. I currently live by myself and I bought a pork loin to barbecue for Independence Day as a treat. I bought one of the smallest ones I could find, then ate about a third of it that night. Then I put the rest in the fridge and ate it over subsequent days - one night I had it on its own with some veggies on the side, and another I sliced it up thin and topped some ramen with it. The loin cost me about $5, but to say that the meat for that one meal on Independence Day cost me $5 is baffling logic. Maybe we can simplify this. Do you eat breakfast cereal? If you buy a box of breakfast cereal for $4 and a gallon of milk for $4, then have a bowl of cereal with milk the next day, do you think that means that one bowl of cereal cost you $8?
- dheera 3mo agoI have work to do. I'd probably get PIP if I did that every day.